The Pacific Science Center is starting to look a little more like Burning Man.

But there’s nothing little about the 26-foot Rubik’s cube being installed in the center’s Puzzle Palooza exhibit. Yes, the troublesome box of colorful squares that tormented you as a child is now larger than life and glowing at the Pacific Science Center, a mainstay attraction of the new exhibit featuring puzzles and brainteasers.

Developed by a team of engineers and artists at GroovLabs, the suspended Rubik’s cube — wait, make that Groovik’s Cube — is fully functional and can be solved using controls on the ground. The controls are collaborative, meaning three people have to work together to solve the cube.

If they put a bird on it, would Portland like it better?* We’re talking about the staking of a new Mars Hill branch in the city, which is part of the church behemoth’s effort to reproduce itself. The …

Mars Hill Church, arguably Seattle’s loudest and fastest-growing church, is expanding to Everett. And Portland. And Orange County in California.

After that? Who knows, but the controversial church probably won’t be rubbing its belly and calling it quits any time soon. Already, the church has eight locations in Washington — Everett will be No. 9. And a Mars Hill church in Albuquerque opened in 2009.

Maybe that’s what Pastor Mark Driscoll meant when wrote in a 2010 letter to his congregation that the church is preparing for “a great harvest.”

The lead singer of Seattle up-and-comers The Heart and the Heart said Tuesday he’s “ashamed” of choking and clawing at a sound engineers neck after a show at Ballard’s Tractor Tavern last week.

“I deeply regret and am ashamed of my uncharacteristic behavior last week,” Jon Russell said in a statement via promoters atSub Pop. “I have expressed as much to the owner of the establishment and attempted to apologize to the person who I hurt, face-to-face. And while my apology can’t erase my actions or make up for anything, really, it is sincere. I am truly sorry.”

The person Russell hurt is sound engineer Doug Krebs, who recently wrote on Facebook that he was “attacked” by the popular band’s frontman.